Singing Adele’s hit song “Someone Like You” to a sold-out audience at Florida A&M’s homecoming fashion show was one of the highlights of R&B artist LaJon Caldwell’s career. Although the 22-year-old is pursuing a degree in education at Georgia Southern University, his talents go way beyond the classroom. Broadcast Music […]
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Differences Celebrated with SGA’s ‘DiversiTEA’
Florida A&M Student Government Association’s Department of Diversity’s goal is to reach out to students on campus who are considered unnoticed. The department focuses on students who are: non-black, non-Christian, non-traditional, disabled and LGBTQ students (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and queer). On Tuesday night, the Department of Diversity collaborated with […]
Mother Puts Child’s Feelings First
It has been a little over a week since Sevin and I have been in our new apartment. It finally feels like home. But, I am feeling somewhat guilty about separating my son from his father. I have only been concerned about how I would deal with being a single […]
High-End Fashion Comes to Brogan Museum
It is only one of it’s kind, and will be here Thursday night. Fashion lovers who didn’t get enough during homecoming can head to The Mary Brogan Museum for some high fashion. The museum will be hosting Nino Lettieri’s latest Collection of Haute, 7 p.m. Thursday. Nino Lettieri is considered […]
Clark Sisters Carry Spirit to Lee Hall
What started as a somber gospel event turned into a foot-stomping, Southern Baptist revival meeting. The Clark Sisters shouted, danced and belted out some of their most familar tunes at the annual homecoming gospel concert in Lee Hall Auditorium Friday night. The event, which was part of the Florida A&M […]
Young Alums Give Back
Growing up in the upper middle class, Arian Reed says she never really knew what it felt to “not have” or to struggle. Following graduation in 2003, she ended up homeless and living out of her car. Reed began to turn to Rattlers for support until her big break. Now Reed, entrepreneur, […]
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Fort Valley President Returns to ‘The Hill’
In March 2006, Larry Rivers left his post as the dean of Florida A&M’s College of Arts and Sciences to assume the presidency of Fort Valley State in rural Middle Georgia. This move was only after Rivers’ lauded stint as a faculty member, administrator, and supporter of a school in […]
Tanner Exhibition Opens
The Foster Tanner Fine Arts Gallery held the opening reception for the third annual PINNACLE National Juried Art Exhibition on Friday, Sept. 2. Harris Wiltsher, director of the Foster Tanner Fine Arts Gallery and member of the Mary Brogan Museum’s art Exhibition Committee, invited Chucha Barbra, CEO of the Mary […]
Legislative round-up
Unemployment rate down in Florida The March jobs report released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed Florida’s unemployment rate has decreased by a full percentage point to 11.1 percent. Despite the drop in unemployment, the Agency for Workforce Innovation classified 8.5 percent of Florida’s unemployed as […]